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Worldwide Incidents Tracking System

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The Worldwide Incidents Tracking System (WITS) was a publicly accessible terrorism database operated by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). NCTC discontinued WITS in April 2012.

Content

As of September 2010, WITS contained over 68,939 records.

The database was organized in the following dimensions:

  • City
  • Country
  • Damage
  • Event Type
  • Facilities Type
  • Geocode Anchor
  • Geocode Country
  • Geocode Province
  • Group Type
  • ICN: An incident number of form YYYYMMDDXX
  • Incident Group Type
  • Incident Subject
  • Incident Summary
  • Incident Year
  • Included Facility Defining Characteristics
  • Included Facility Nationalities
  • Included Facility Targeted Characteristics
  • Included Group Nationalities
  • Perpetrator Confidence
  • Provinces States
  • Related Term
  • Victim Incident Country
  • WITS Child Record ParentID
  • Weapon

    • References

    Worldwide Incidents Tracking System Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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